The Bhutanese Leading the way.
An investigation by The Bhutanese has found that well armed timber mafia from India and local tribes in collusion with corrupt law enforcement officials there are engaged in large scale illegal logging and smuggling of trees from southern Bhutan.An understaffed Bhutanese forest rangers team has been unable to catch most …
Read More »Strict Dzongkha teacher terrorized by gang with ‘bombs’ and pamphlets
Dzongkha lopen targeted with two bombs and warning pamphlets from gang members Around 11 teachers of Bajo Higher Secondary school were rudely woken up by two loud blasts on the night of March 1. In the morning teachers and staff found that two ‘bombs’ exploded outside Dzongkha teacher Lopen …
Read More »Rupee panic spreads
In a sign of the rupee crunch panic spreading, fuel stations and gas depots saw people stocking on these products in anticipation of a shortage. In an attempt to address such growing national panic the finance minister Lyonpo, Wangdi Norbu said that there is no need for alarm as the …
Read More »70% of Bhutanese movies in 2011 were box office flops
The Bhutanese film industry saw its worst year in 2011 with 18 of the 26 releases flopping big time at the box office. Most films that failed were introduced by new directors including fresh graduates who learnt filmmaking elsewhere and wanted to start their own production as soon as they …
Read More »Miracle elephant climbs up a snow mountain in Bhutan
Blame it on climate change or animal determination, a four-year old tusker has climbed all the way up a snow mountain at 3,419 meters above sea level in Chukha, Bhutan, posing serious questions to conservationists on how this tusker, usually seen in tropical areas, scaled this height. This ‘transient solitary …
Read More »Banks stop rupee transfer to india
The Royal Monetary Authority (RMA) has imposed a temporary sanction on the commercial banks in making Rupee denominated transactions. This is in light of the Bhutanese economy grappling with Rupee crisis. The governor of the central bank, Daw Tenzin, said: “Bhutan is selling less and importing more. It is important …
Read More »66 students withdraw from Orong School after last year’s deaths
Following the death of two students in Orong Higher Secondary School in Samdrup Jongkhar due to nutritional deficiency last year, 66 of the 167 Class X students have withdrawn from the school. The 66 students reportedly have withdrawn from the school because their parents did not want them to study …
Read More »4 years later Phobjikha land case still stuck with the High Court
One of Anti Corruption Commission’s first controversial corruption cases, the Phobjika land transfer case is still in the High Court since November 2007. The high court is yet to come out with any judgment on the case which was forwarded to them from the Wangdue Phodrang District Court in November …
Read More »Prisoners need “cooling period” before they get security clearance, employment a problem
Phuntsho N Dorji was released a month ago after serving a three-year prison term. He wants to resume a normal life and is seeking employment, there being nobody to support him since he lost his parents a couple of years ago. The only hitch is he has to acquire a …
Read More »Father rapes daughter
On February 27, a 12-year old girl in Chumey, Bumthang alleged that she had been raped by her 45-year-old father thrice in the absence of her mother. She was raped on January 24 for the first time when her mother was in her village, Surey in Gelephu for a …
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